Outsourcing: Persistent Systems Interview (Part 7)

By guest author Tony Scott The Phases of Outsourcing: The Value of IP vs. Productization Tony: That’s great, but isn’t a company’s core IP still really important? Anand: To give some context here about your IP question, what I find is that with many of the small startups, you’ll find two or three founders who

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Outsourcing: Persistent Systems Interview (Part 6)

By guest author Tony Scott The Phases of Outsourcing: The Future of Outsourced Product Development in the Software Industry Tony: How long do you think it will be before software product companies move to the fourth level of outsourcing, where they will be doing the equivalent of original design manufacturing?

Outsourcing: Persistent Systems Interview (Part 5)

By guest author Tony Scott The Phases of Outsourcing:  Design For Manufacturing and Original Design Manufacturing The third phase is what we call design for manufacturing. In this phase, the people who are responsible for delivering this outsourced process say, “OK, now I know exactly how this all works together, and I can do it

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Outsourcing: Persistent Systems Interview (Part 4)

By guest author Tony Scott The Phases of Outsourcing: Cost Arbitrage and Process Efficiency Tony: Anand, what you are doing is primarily outsourced product development – isn’t that unique to Persistent and a couple of other companies?

Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Paul Olliver, Wider Wake Networks (Part 8)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: So, what do you think is the most important thing that angel-backed founders should do to increase their chances of success? Paul: From our perspective, if Wider Wake, being an angel group, has backed a team of founders, the best thing they can do is engage

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Outsourcing: Persistent Systems Interview (Part 3)

By guest author Tony Scott Deep Customer Relationships Tony: Do you typically have ongoing relationships with your customers? For example, do they tell you: “We are going be building this product, and these are the overall definitions wand features we would offer if we could, and we’d like to work with you on this over

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Paul Olliver, Wider Wake Networks (Part 7)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Any interesting stories about the companies you invested in? Paul: Back to appssavvy, they’re really a case study deal for us. That’s exactly the way in which we like to work. Steve: appssavvy started out with an idea when Facebook opened its platform to third-party developers.

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Paul Olliver, Wider Wake Networks (Part 6)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Do you invest in teams straight out of school, or do you require previous business experience? If only with experience, what level of experience do you require? Paul: We much prefer teams with experience, but that experience doesn’t need to be at a certain level of

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